Day Three - Wednesday, April 8, 2009Morning: Mental processes for attention and cognitive control in children and adolescents
Dialogue leader: Adele DiamondAfternoon: The utility of Improving attention and working memory with mindfulness-based training
Dialogue leader: Amishi Jha

2. Adele Diamond, Ph.D: Canada Research Chair Professor of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia.

3. Shaun Gallagher, Ph.D: Professor of Filosophy, and IST Senior Researcher at the University of Central Florida(USA) and Research Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at the University of Herfordshire (UK).

4. Robert Gethin, Ph.D: Reader in Buddhist Studies and Co-Director of the Centre for Buddhist Studies at the University of Bristol.

5. Amishi Jha, Ph.D: Assistant Professor of Psychology at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania.

The discussions during Mind and Life XVIII primarily focus on the subjective phenomenology, information-processing operations, and neural mechanisms of attention, memory and conscious awareness from both scientific and Buddhist perspectives.